The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... interest in Africa , and the movement found its Parliamentary cham- pion in William Wilberforce . Few of its supporters probably realised what " an obstinate hill " remained to climb . Vested interests were strong , humanitarianism cut ...
... interest in Africa , and the movement found its Parliamentary cham- pion in William Wilberforce . Few of its supporters probably realised what " an obstinate hill " remained to climb . Vested interests were strong , humanitarianism cut ...
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... interests . But it was a safeguard on paper only . An attempt to veto an enactment of the sovereign Parliament of Ireland on the advice of a British Minister would have been contested as a violation of the Act of Renunciation and have ...
... interests . But it was a safeguard on paper only . An attempt to veto an enactment of the sovereign Parliament of Ireland on the advice of a British Minister would have been contested as a violation of the Act of Renunciation and have ...
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... interests , like the pressure of the Cotton Supply Association on the Indian Government to build railways . Capital flowed into colonial railway companies under the stimulus of a state guarantee of interest ; without that guarantee ...
... interests , like the pressure of the Cotton Supply Association on the Indian Government to build railways . Capital flowed into colonial railway companies under the stimulus of a state guarantee of interest ; without that guarantee ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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